The November writing challenge your way.
Are you writing? What are you writing? Join us over in To Live & Write in Practice and tell us about your WIP, your plans, and your progress.
In my writing community, we’ve been doing a NaNoWriMo-adjacent goal setting and determined writing event every November for about 10 years.
NaNoWriMo is no more, but our writing situationship with November continues.
What’s a November Situationship? It’s where you get to design your own relationship with the novel writing month challenge writers the world over participate in every year. Instead of adhering to the rules, you honor the spirit. And do the work.
Free for members of To Live & Write in Practice and subscribers of The Week Ahead newsletter.
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But why bother with a situationship?
To accommodate variety. To embrace variety. To write together and support each other, even though our plans, goals, and intentions vary one from the other.
Maybe 50,000 words of a brand-new novel in 30 days is the perfect stretch goal for you. Maybe 30,000 words makes more sense. Any word count, as long as it’s a word count is your motivator, but you want to set your own goal.
Maybe you’re working on an existing WIP and dread the distraction of a new set of characters demanding your attention. You want to add chapters or scenes or even word counts, but you want to add them to your WIP instead of starting something new.
Maybe you’re on a roll with your Substack or chomping at the bit to begin a blog and you really want to use this month to stockpile posts and schedule future publication dates to take off some of the pressure.
Maybe you’re revising, like me, and the best way to manage an extraordinary goal is to set a daily chunk of time to invest in your work.
The point is, in a writing situationship you get to decide what fulfillment and satisfaction mean to you. Accountability comes with announcing your intentions and checking in with the group in To Live & Write in Practice or The Week Ahead newsletter. That’s where the writers who are motivated to write share progress, interact, and support each other.
Ready to write?
Join us! Find out how it feels to have an active support system for your writing.
You can find To Live & Write and To Live & Write in Practice in the Facebook search bar.
Ask to join and I’ll let you in.
Or you can follow along in Substack and do your sharing in The Week Ahead comments section.